Summary: An Abundance Of Katherines

For example, if the conflict was, “All of the sudden, grandma’s laundry flew off the line”, the reader would probably lose interest in the story unless he or she was a launderer or happened to be grandma. If the conflict was, “But then, Mark turned around just in time to deflect a blow from somebody with a crowbar! He looked closer, and it turned out that it was not one attacker, but five! And they were all married to him!” the reader would probably get his interest perked up quite a few degrees north. The conflict, “One day, a child stepped out through the door” does not have an interesting sound to it at all. For this essay of critique, however, the conflict unfortunately is, “One day, a child stepped out through the door”. That is not what the majority of the educated population would call an invigorating conflict, but it is advisable to keep reading, for one cannot always judge a story by its conflict.)

colin then came up with this theory that he is a dumpee and never the dumper. He was working on theorem to prove this for about three months, he kept getting stuck because he thought that Katherine III dumped him when he dumped her and that messed up his theorem. Then one day Hassan, Colin’s best friend and only friend really,, decided that they were going on a road trip to get Colin’s mind of off K-19. They ended up in Gutshot, Tennessee where they met Lindsey Wells and Hollis Wells. Lindsey and Hollis told Colin and Hassan that they could stay at their place for awhile if they wanted to, so they did.

Colin really wants to matter. He thinks that if he can’t get rid of everyone think he’s a child prodigy, then he can make a discovery, and become a genius. So Colin tries to use what he and figure out a theorem that would explain relationships. On the other hand, Katrina, Hassan’s girlfriend, and (TOC) were caught cheating, so those relationships are over. Linsey is upset but she is more concerned about her mom, Hollis. She has been acting weirdly lately, and Lindsey wants to know what’s causing it.

In 2014, John Green’s second book, An Abundance of Katherines, was banned by the school superintendent at Highland Park, Texas, Independent School District. It is stated that the novel has been banned for its sexual content. According to Amanda from BannedYA, the novel was banned, because the parents “did not think it was appropriate for their children to read in class”. When the book was banned by the superintendent, the action received national attention, causing the superintendent to restate the book. Due to this, in February 2015, the school district trustees approved policy changes on how the district selects books and handles parents’ objections.(Titus) The arguments against the book were that the sexual scenes and curse words are not

Report on An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green (215). An Abundance of Katherines is about Colin Singleton, a smart high school graduate from Chicago, as he mourns and tries to get his life figured out after being broken up with by his nineteenth girlfriend named Katherine. In addition to his girlfriend calling off their relationship, he is forced to come to terms with the fact that he is now an adult and no longer the special and prodigious child that he had been all his life. To assist him out of his rut, his best friend, Hassan, decides to accompany him on a summer road trip.

Things are going great for Colin. He’s the star of his high school baseball team, he has a killer motorcycle, and his mom’s career as an artist is finally taking off. Then, a chance encounter with a leprechaun reveals that nothing in his world is as it seems…

In the opinion of this reader, the central conflicts – the relation between the protagonist and antagonist (Abrams 225) - in the tale are an internal one, a spiritual-moral conflict within the minister, the Reverend Mr. Hooper, and an

The rising action of this novel comes when Colin's best and only friend, Hassan Harbish, convinces him to go on a road trip with him to cure Colin’s recent break up with Katherine, Hassan feels that they should depart on a road trip. After convincing their parents that a road trip is a good idea, Colin and Hassan go south from their home in Chicago. Colin goes along with the idea, hoping to find his "eureka" moment on the way. After driving all the way from Chicago to Tennessee, they come across the alleged resting place of the body of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. They arrive in a small town called Gutshot where they meet Lindsey Lee Wells, who has a smile that could “end wars and cure cancer." (pg 57 of the An Abundance of Katherines).

The narrator is focusing on Colin, so we can see everything that he thinks, says, and does. However, as I mentioned in my previous book report, you can’t see what everyone else is thinking.

This essay will be covering the conflicts of stories and the characters associated with these stories. The purpose of this essay was to inform you of the conflict that characters in stories encounter on there adventures.

“An Abundance of Katherines” by John Green is a tremendous book about how Colin Singleton, a child prodigy, gets dumped by nineteen girls who all happen to be named Katherine. After the nineteenth Katherine leaves him, he starts feeling sorry for himself so he and his friend, Hassan, decide to travel to an unknown destination where they both meet the unlikeliest of friends and find a reasonable job. Along the way, Colin tries to invent a sophisticated formula that may or may not help him predict the future predictability of a relationship.

The novel justifies this claim, “He memorized the first 99 digits of pi (π) at age 10” (Green, 6). At a young age, Colin was really smart and so he would go to a summer camp for smart kids. As well, he spends most of his time studying and reading. The novel states, “Ever since he was 7 he tries to read 400 pages a day” (109). Besides reading and studying, he loves to anagram and so he can literally anagram anything. When he was small and he first created an anagram, he accidentally gave himself a splinter as he was rearranging wooden blocks to spell P-O-T-S into S-T-O-P. Since he is really smart he could never tell a good story because he thought the truth should matter as much as the point. Another key characteristic that defines his identity is his egotism. Colin always thinks that people might not like him and he is terrified of getting left behind. He also worries about ending up by himself forever and not meaning anything to the world. Another example of Colin’s egotism and his jealousy is when Colin’s only best friend Hassan had a date and so he was unhappy. Since he is egotistical he only cares about his happiness and not about anyone else. Similar to Cupid, Colin has a great characteristic of

Colin was asked to answer different questions and flip polygons and things to try to

What type of person only like people with a certain name. Somebody like Colin Singleton, former child prodigy that has only dated girls named Katherine. Bestselling author John Green wrote this interesting novel, An Abundance of Katherines, of a high-school graduate who has been dumped by his nineteenth Katherine. Colin’s best and only friend, Hassan Harbish, decides to take Colin on a road trip because of K-19, the nineteenth Katherine he has dated. Colin chooses to stop at an exit that advertised the grave of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. They soon get a job at the town of Gutshot, were the grave was

Colin just got dumped by another girl and ends up feeling ill after it. His friend Hassan comes over to make sure he was okay. But Hassan didn’t realize that Colin had gotten really sick and has a reaction.